{"id":1795,"date":"2009-12-03T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2009-12-03T22:00:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T03:00:56","slug":"the-sick-pot-december-3-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/the-sick-pot-december-3-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sick Pot, December 3 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our sick pot<\/p><\/div>\n

My poor sweet Ethan, my oldest boy the 10 year old, was recently sick with strep throat.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He threw up, I will spare you the disgusting details of the event, it was gross.\u00a0\u00a0So \u00a0I brought him a big pot.\u00a0 As a child growing up whenever one of the children were ill mom\u00a0would bring a pot to put beside our bed just in case we could not make it to the bathroom.\u00a0 We seldom left our bed if we were ill. We were to sleep or read but always rest.\u00a0 Now my children have a sick\u00a0pot as well.<\/p>\n

It is such a hopeless feeling as a mom to be out of control of making our children happy and healthy when they fall ill.\u00a0 It’s as though you have to watch the life being sucked out of them without a choice.\u00a0\u00a0Thank God we live in a civilized country with medications that can heal our children in a matter of hours and not cripple them for a lifetime.\u00a0 Meijer even carries some antibiotics for free.\u00a0 Even with this knowledge that our children will recover it is still difficult to watch them suffer. It seems that my entire world shuts down when one of my children become ill.\u00a0 I pay close attention to the clock and actually write down when medication has been given.\u00a0 The night crawls slowly listening for the coughing, feet scrambling to the bathroom and checking for fever through out the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thank God there is a light at the end of the tunnel.\u00a0 When our children’s color returns to their cheeks, when they decide they want to eat and sit at the table again and when they decide they have had enough T.V. to last them the next month.\u00a0 When I clean out the pot and then sterilize it\u00a0and put it away.\u00a0 Then I disinfect again, clean the sheets, blankets and bathrooms, open the windows and pray that the germs don’t take up residence in the next child.\u00a0 After the illness is over I always sit down with my children and say “We need to thank God that he answered our prayers for you to get better.\u00a0 We need to be appreciative for how good you feel right now.”<\/p>\n

Having a sick child is awake up call to realize how little control we actually have.\u00a0 We need to relinquish the imagined control to God and pray that He will guide us to do the best job possible as a mom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0That God will give us;<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0the strength<\/em> to carry our sick child to bed, <\/strong><\/p>\n

the endurance<\/em> to stay up the night to check for fevers, <\/strong><\/p>\n

the lack of smell<\/em>\u00a0to clean up the vomit and disinfect <\/strong><\/p>\n

and the unconditional love<\/em> to\u00a0hold our children through it all without a second thought of getting sick ourselves.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Thank you God for all that you give each mom<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0without You we could do none of it!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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